Purposefully build partnerships and networks to create results (Leadership Resources)

Successful collaboration between organizations of all types depends on the partners’ strategic fit: their ability to align their organizations and develop mutually compatible goals.

Description:

  • They create connections, trust and shared meaning with individuals and groups.

Abilities:

  • Collaborative approaches range from highly informal to highly formal.
  • Approach suited to situation, evolves over the lifecycle of the partnerships.

This is shown by having:

  • Trust.
  • Collaboration.
  • Intentionality.
  • A typical involvement or requirement  for some form of reciprocity.

The Practices and Skills may include:

  • Strategic stakeholder / partner identification.
  • Relationship building.
  • Clarification of working relations and agreed upon performance measures.

Tools:

  • HPEI Stakeholder Engagement Plan.
  • Communication Plan template.
  • Standard contract templates.
  • Project Charter templates.
  • Memorandum of Understanding.

Leadership Resources:

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  • James H. Fowlera, 1 and Nicholas A. Chistiakisb, “Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks”
  • Meta-analysis reports on engagement by CHSRF, RAND, and others.
Last Updated
Wed, 02/06/2019 - 11:22